“Your smile can save a distressed soul, gladden a sad heart, or heal a broken spirit. Have a blessed day.”
– Unknown quotes –
Here, at some traffic light, there are some Crossing Guards who are stand by to help people or bicycle to cross the street.
Well, it’s look a simple job but it is not!
They will need to stand up for long hours either under the sun or in the raining time.
We take car everyday, so we will never cross the street and meet them.
There is one Crossing Guard that we always meet in the morning and we decide to try our best to give him smile when we pass through him.
Kids will waive hands to him too!
You know what? He really looks happy and smile.
This remind me to one old man who does cleaning on our home block at Singapore.
Since JJ first time started to go to school ( JJ was around 2.5 years old) , TT and I always wait him on the same place every day to pick him up from the school bus. TT was still around 10 months old during that time. And most of the time we will meet this uncle when he sat down there and took a rest.
This uncle will always smile and happily called TT and most of the time TT will smile to him.
When JJ arrived and before we came back to the house kids will say bye bye to this uncle.
It continued until TT started his school and until last year before we moved here. It had been around 4 years since the first time we met this uncle. My husband and I will always walked with our kids go to the MRT Station in the morning (go to school).
Though we will not meet this uncle everyday but, every time we met this uncle, this uncle was so happy!
He will say “Good morning, my little friends!”
And kids will answer him, ” Good morning, uncle!”
Not only that uncle who was happy but also our kids!
And our kids will not only give smile to this uncle but also to another uncle who also clean our block and to the taxi driver, waitress, bus driver, etc.
Sometime we thought that those people looks so fierce, not friendly, etc. But why don’t we are the one who start smile to them? Greet them. It will make their day!
Smile to them, they need it. They never ask for it, but they need it and they will be very grateful when some one greet them and smile to them.
“Today, give a stranger one of your smiles. It might be the only sunshine he sees all day”.
~by H. Jackson Brown, Jr. ~
